HARPALIJSLE 95 



puncture near apical fifth still smaller; hind tarsi similar. Female 

 only a little stouter but usually duller than the male, the elytra 

 densely sericeo-opaque, the hind tarsi with the basal joint evidently 

 longer than the fifth. Length (cf 9 ) 7.3-10.4 mm.; width 2.9-3.9 

 mm. (California (seacoast regions near San Francisco to Humboldt 

 Co.) and Oregon (Clackamas Co.). Abundant. [//. advena Lee.; 

 defixns Walk.] cautus Dej. 



Form still shorter, oblong, parallel and convex, very shining, even the 

 female elytra polished and with only slightly visible micro-reticu- 

 lation; color deep black throughout, all the tarsi black or blackish; 

 head rather less than three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, somewhat 

 more convex than usual, the eyes moderate; mandibles wholly 

 black, the frontal suture rather deep but fine, the adherent fovese 

 minute; palpi and antennae testaceous, the latter slender; prothorax 

 not quite one-half wider than long, the sides subevenly and feebly 

 arcuate, the sinuate apex much narrower than the transverse 

 base, the basal margin rather widely subinterrupted medially, 

 the angles distinctly rounded; surface as in crenatellus, the extremely 

 fine reflexed sides even throughout the length, the convexity of the 

 disk extended with but little change broadly between the feeble 

 linear, very finely and sparsely punctulate foveae and the sides and 

 impunctate; stria extremely fine and feeble; fine bead at the sides 

 and base rufescent from diaphaneity; elytra equal in width to the 

 prothorax, scarcely one-half longer than wide, somewhat abruptly 

 circularly rounded behind in apical third, the sinus rather feeble 

 but distinct, deeper externally, the outer angle very obtuse but 

 evident, somewhat as in viridiceneus ; striae fine, feeble, the intervals 

 flat, the puncture near apical fifth; abdomen impunctate, except a 

 small patch behind the inner part of the coxae as usual; first joint 

 of the hind tarsi as long as the fifth. Length ( 9 ) 8.7 mm. ; width 3.5 

 mm. Mexico (Colonia Garcia in Chihuahua), Townsend. 



*atripes n. sp. 



12 Body (9) oblong-oval, convex, deep black above and beneath, the 

 legs black, the tibiae rufous except at tip, the tarsi rufo-piceous, 

 shining, the elytra rather opaque and subsericeous; head nearly as in 

 cautus; mandibles black throughout, the antennae and palpi tes- 

 taceous, the former with rather shorter joints than in cautus; pro- 

 thorax relatively small, one-half wider than long, the sides strongly 

 and subevenly rounded; apex moderately sinuate, narrower than 

 the transverse base, where the bead is fine and entire, the angles 

 obtuse and distinctly rounded; surface nearly as in cautus, except 

 that the marginal gutter, extremely fine at apex, broadens more 

 rapidly and is finely punctate throughout, as in also the entire basal 

 region from side to side, except for a short distance in the middle, the 

 punctures fine, sparse and very feeble, the foveae rather deep, some- 

 what acutely linear at the bottom; elytra scarcely one-half longer 

 than wide, with parallel rounded sides, gradually obtusely ogival 

 behind from slightly behind the middle, almost a third wider than 

 the prothorax, the sinus obsolete, straight, the striae very fine and 

 feeble, the scutellar long, the intervals perfectly flat, the puncture 



